Lawson M3 Fashion helps TAL balance production load
23 Oct '07
4 min read
Lawson Software announced that TAL, a leading garment manufacturer based in Hong Kong, successfully implemented the Lawson M3 Fashion Planning Workbench and the Supply Chain Order solutions. As two key components of the Lawson solution for the fashion industry, these enterprise applications are designed to help TAL achieve shorter planning and production lead times, respond faster to market trends and improve inventory management.
TAL is one the largest and most successful fashion apparel producers in the world producing approximately 55 million garments each year. TAL owns 4.2 million square feet of production floor area in 12 factories worldwide, and creates one in every seven dress shirts sold in the United States.
TAL has been using the Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System since 2002 in its factories in seven countries to help minimize production peaks and valleys. To achieve that, the company identified medium- to long-term planning as one of the critical processes for its operation, because it needs to match production capacities across all factories with orders that it expects six to nine months in advance.
TAL also wanted to achieve higher visibility in material requirements planning, because most of the company's products are made-to-order, requiring specific materials for specific orders. The company selected the Lawson Fashion Planning Workbench and Supply Chain Order solutions to help improve production and material requirements planning.
The Lawson M3 Fashion Planning Workbench helps TAL balance production load across its multiple sites and assists with planning at the style/color level. This gives TAL the ability to better plan capacity across the company's various production sites and simulate load based on possible operational and business changes.
“We used to rely on Excel spreadsheets for mid-to-long-term capacity planning but it was time consuming, not integrated and susceptible to human error,” said Delman Lee, director of technology for TAL.
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